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PA Historical Center Catches Fire Hours After 250 Year Anniversary Celebration PA Historical Center Catches Fire Hours After 250 Year Anniversary Celebration
PA Historical Center Catches Fire Hours After 250 Year Anniversary Celebration Hours after a central Pennsylvania community gathered to celebrate it's 250 anniversary, the historical society building, which housed all the archives, burned. Dauphin-Middle Paxton Historical Society hosted the Dauphin Boro 250 anniversary celebration on Saturday, only to have many of the historical archives and much of the building destroyed in a massive fire early Sunday morning. Crews were called to a fire at the Dauphin-Middle Paxton Historical Society's building at 5:15 a.m., according to fire chief for Dauphin-Middle Paxton Fire Company Robert Rusbatch. As the community of Dau…